Will the Guardians of the Galaxy appear in Avengers: Infinity War? It’s a question that Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn hasn’t answered, and the Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe & Anthony Russo won’t answer either. However, they did give a pretty strong hint in an exclusive interview with ComicBook.com before their New Orleans WizardWorld appearance.

When asked if they’ve had any talks of including the Guardians in Infinity War, Joe Russo responded, “That is another one that we would have to reserve as a surprise, but we will say this: People will not be disappointed in the amount of characters in the movie. The concept of Infinity War is that the Marvel universe unites to battle the greatest threat to the world and universe that you’ve ever seen, and we’re going to honor that concept.”

In regards to if they’ve started thinking about the more cosmic nature of Avengers: Infinity War as opposed to the grounded, gritty Winter Soldier and Civil War, Joe Russo said, “Yeah, we certainly have. I sat in the theater and watched Empire Strikes Back seven times in a row when I was a kid. Yeah, we're science fiction fans as well, Dungeons and Dragons. We collected all the books when we were kids. We had figurines. Anything that you could think of that has to do with fantasy or sci-fi or superheroes was in our universe. We're just going to approach the cosmic side with the same fervor that we did the earthbound work we've been doing. We also are going to work really hard to bring a psychological realism. We obviously can't bring a naturalism to it because it doesn't really exist outside of science fiction, but we can bring that psychological realism to it, to the characters, and that's going to be our focus.

"Also, it's going to be our focus to explore the cosmic side, applying the same rules that we like to apply to the last two films that we've done. It ends up being the rules of physics always apply or apply as much as we can get them to apply based on what we're doing.”

Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 is scheduled to be released in movie theaters on May 4, 2018. Avengers: Infinity War Part 2 is scheduled to be released in movie theaters on May 3, 2019.